Poverty haunts Egypt in Cairo’s City of the Dead focus 02/18/2011

Poverty haunts Egypt in Cairo’s City of the Dead

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02/18/2011
CAIRO — In a sprawling cemetery on the edge of Cairo, where thousands of Egyptians inhabit the tombs of bygone nobles in a City of the Dead, the promise of a revolution is haunted by the specter of poverty.

The centuries-old maze of mausoleums is a long way from Tahrir Square and the Internet activists whose revolt chased Hosni Mubarak from power and united the country behind a vision of a resurrected Egypt, proud and free.

“I didn’t go to Tahrir,” said Nasser al-Said, 27, who makes a couple of dollars a day by selling tea from a rickety wooden table by the roadside.

“I have to support my mother, my wife and my daughter. How are they supposed to eat if I go off and demonstrate?”.... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110218com7.html